The people of the town of Hadar in the Syrian Golan denounce the visit of the Druze sheikhs to Israel
Abdullah Al-Haqim 
The people of the town of Hadar in the occupied Syrian Golan expressed their strong condemnation of the visit of some of the sheikhs of the Druze community to Israel, which came at the invitation of the authorities loyal to Israel. They emphasized that this visit represents only those who made it, and does not reflect the position of the people of the authentic Druze community.
The people stressed that “Israel was never eager for the rights of minorities, but rather seeks to exploit such visits to cultivate the division between the people of one people,” noting that “the occupation is working to use the Druze community to serve its expansionary interests in southern Syria.”
Strong security measures … a Syrian Druze religious delegation visiting Israel (photos and video)
They affirmed their adherence to “the national position rejecting the occupation”, and not forgetting “the crimes and violations committed by the Israeli occupation against the people of the Golan, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip”, stressing that “the blood of the martyrs and the sacrifices of the Palestinian people will remain present in their conscience.”
At the end of their statement, the people of the town of Hadar affirmed that their only affiliation is for the Syrian homeland, and that they are adhering to the unity of the Syrian people, refusing “any attempts to employ the Druze community in the Israeli occupation plans.”
A delegation of about sixty Syrian Druze clerics crossed the armistice line in the occupied Golan Heights to Israel on Friday, according to AFP correspondents, on the first visit of its kind in about fifty years.
The delegation crossed in three buses accompanied by Israeli military vehicles to the town of Majdal Shams in the Syrian Golan, and went north to visit the shrine of the Prophet Shuaib in the town of Julis near Tiberias, and the spiritual leader of the Druze Almohad community in Israel, Sheikh Mowaffaq Tarif, according to a source close to the delegation.
In Majdal Shams, visitors received about a hundred Druze and welcomed them by chanting heritage songs and applause, while a number of young people waved the Druze flags in green, red, yellow, blue and white.
Some men wore traditional black uniforms, and they performed a white -like turban, characterized by its red cover.
“We have been waiting for their meeting for many years, it is a very impressive moment,” Jamal Ayoub, 61, a farmer who came from Galilee to welcome his uncle within the delegation of the elders, told AFP.
However, a Druze source said that the visit was “severe opposition” within Syrian society.
The Druze are distributed between Lebanon, Israel, the occupied Golan and Syria, especially in the province of As -Suwayda, adjacent to Quneitra in the south.
